Science And The Construction Of Women
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Science And The Construction Of Women Rle Feminist Theory
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Author : Mary Maynard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Science And The Construction Of Women Rle Feminist Theory written by Mary Maynard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Political Science categories.
Science and the Construction of Women is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the major questions currently challenging feminist scholars of science. The authors ask key questions: What constitutes science? How have feminists investigated it? How does science ‘construct’ women? How can we create a feminist discourse of science? Are the current developments to women’s advantage or disadvantage? Their answers draw on material from a wide range of natural scientific, humanities and social science sources, critically examining theoretical approaches from the postmodern to the materialist to the cyborgian. A key argument of the book is that there are strong intellectual and pragmatic reasons – the rapid development of information technology, advances in fertility treatment and genetic engineering, feminist concern for environmental issues – why feminism must rigorously engage with issues of a scientific and technological nature. Science and the Construction of Women provides an important contribution to the opening-up and broadening of debate in the field. This book will be an important text for students of gender and women’s studies, and science studies. It is also designed to be read by feminists both inside and outside the academy and to appeal to all those with interests in the sociology of knowledge and the history of ideas.
Science And The Construction Of Women
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Author : Mary Maynard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Science And The Construction Of Women written by Mary Maynard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Feminist theory categories.
Sexual Science
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Author : Cynthia Russett
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1991-03-01
Sexual Science written by Cynthia Russett and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-03-01 with History categories.
One scarcely knows whether to laugh or cry. The spectacle presented, in Cynthia Russett's splendid book, of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying to prove women inferior to men--thereby providing, along with "savages" and "idiots," an evolutionary buffer between men and animals--is by turns appalling, amusing, and saddening. Surveying the work of real scientists as well as the products of more dubious minds, Russett has produced a learned yet immensely enjoyable chapter in the annals of human folly. At the turn of the century science was successfully challenging the social authority of religion; scientists wielded a power no other group commanded. Unfortunately, as Russett demonstrates, in Victorian sexual science, empiricism tangled with prior belief, and scientists' delineation of the mental and physical differences between men and women was directed to show how and why women were inferior to men. These men were not necessarily misogynists. This was an unsettling time, when the social order was threatened by wars, fierce economic competition, racial and industrial conflict, and the failure of society to ameliorate poverty, vice, crime, illnesses. Just when men needed the psychic lift an adoring dependent woman could give, she was demanding the vote, higher education, and the opportunity to become a wage earner! No other work has treated this provocative topic so completely, nor have the various scientific theories used to marshal evidence of women's inferiority been so thoroughly delineated and debunked. Erudite enough for scholars in the history of science, intellectual history, and the history of women, this book with its stylish presentation will also attract a large nonspecialist audience.
Science And The Construction Of Women
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Author : Mary Maynard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-11
Science And The Construction Of Women written by Mary Maynard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-11 with Political Science categories.
Science and the Construction of Womenis a multi-disciplinary exploration of the major questions currently challenging feminist scholars of science. The authors ask key questions: What constitutes science? How have feminists investigated it? How does science ‘construct’ women? How can we create a feminist discourse of science? Are the current developments to women’s advantage or disadvantage? Their answers draw on material from a wide range of natural scientific, humanities and social science sources, critically examining theoretical approaches from the postmodern to the materialist to the cyborgian. A key argument of the book is that there are strong intellectual and pragmatic reasons – the rapid development of information technology, advances in fertility treatment and genetic engineering, feminist concern for environmental issues – why feminism must rigorously engage with issues of a scientific and technological nature. Science and the Construction of Womenprovides an important contribution to the opening-up and broadening of debate in the field. This book will be an important text for students of gender and women’s studies, and science studies. It is also designed to be read by feminists both inside and outside the academy and to appeal to all those with interests in the sociology of knowledge and the history of ideas.
Women Science And Technology
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Author : Mary Wyer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-11
Women Science And Technology written by Mary Wyer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-11 with Social Science categories.
Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies. This third edition fully updates its predecessor with a new introduction and twenty-eight new readings that explore social constructions mediated by technologies, expand the scope of feminist technoscience studies, and move beyond the nature/culture paradigm.
Sexual Science
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Author : Cynthia Eagle Russett
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Sexual Science written by Cynthia Eagle Russett and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
“Able, patient and often witty . . . provides a critically useful case study of a period when the level of distortion reached dramatic new heights.” (New York Times Book Review) One scarcely knows whether to laugh or cry. The spectacle presented, in Cynthia Russett's splendid book, of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying to prove women inferior to men—thereby providing, along with "savages" and "idiots," an evolutionary buffer between men and animals—is by turns appalling, amusing, and saddening. Surveying the work of real scientists as well as the products of more dubious minds, Russett has produced a learned yet immensely enjoyable chapter in the annals of human folly. At the turn of the century science was successfully challenging the social authority of religion; scientists wielded a power no other group commanded. Unfortunately, as Russett demonstrates, in Victorian sexual science, empiricism tangled with prior belief, and scientists' delineation of the mental and physical differences between men and women was directed to show how and why women were inferior to men. No other work has treated this provocative topic so completely, nor have the various scientific theories used to marshal evidence of women's inferiority been so thoroughly delineated and debunked. Erudite enough for scholars in the history of science, intellectual history, and the history of women, this book with its stylish presentation will also attract a larger mainstream audience. Winner of the Berkeley Conference of Women Historians Book Award
The Gender And Science Reader
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Author : Muriel Lederman
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001
The Gender And Science Reader written by Muriel Lederman and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Feminism categories.
The Gender and Science Reader brings together key articles in a comprehensive investigations of the nature and practice of science.
Feminist Science Studies
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Author : Maralee Mayberry
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-24
Feminist Science Studies written by Maralee Mayberry and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This essential text contains contributions from a wide range of fields and provides role models for feminist scientists. Including chapters from scientists and feminist scholars, the book presents a wide range of feminist science studies scholarship-from autobiographical narratives and experimental and theoretical projects, to teaching tools and courses and community-based projects.
Sexual Science The Victorian Construction Of Womanhood
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Sexual Science The Victorian Construction Of Womanhood written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Sex Gender And Science
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Author : M. Hird
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-11-05
Sex Gender And Science written by M. Hird and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-05 with Social Science categories.
In Sex, Gender and Science , Myra Hird outlines the social study of science and nature, specifically in relation to 'sex', sex 'differences' and sexuality. She examines how Western understandings of 'sex' are based less upon understanding material sex differences, than on a discourse that emphasizes sex dichotomy over sex diversity and argues for a feminist engagement with scientific debate that embraces the diversity and complexity of nature.